Women could own property, and could keep their wages only if they
worked in a shop
Women could get divorced.
Common women weaved textiles and used the wages from trade to
feed their families.
P
olitical- State Building,
Expansion, & Conflict
Political Structures
Forms of Governance
Nations and Nationalism
Revolts & Revolutions
Regions, Transregional Structures
& Organizations
One of the first empires was the Achaemenid Empire. The Medes
and the Persians had a considerable military power.
In 558-530 BCE Cyrus ruled the Achaemenid Empire. He started a
rebellion against his Median overlord. Brought all of Iran under his
control. He then conquered Anatolia and Babylonian. He was then
recognized as ruler of an empire instead of a regional king.
Cyrus fell in 530 BCE while protecting his land.
The empire continued to expand after Cyrus’s death. His son
ruled after him, but then came the best Achaemenid emperor,
Darius.
Darius conquered until the Indus River, Thrace, Macedonia, and
until the Black Sea.
The empire depended on the balance between central initiative
and local administration.
